physics major class of 09

marlgirl
Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:05:35 +0000

I’m strongly considering majoring in math/physics (at Swat it’d probably be a honors major in math with a minor in physics). Would it be a problem that I’ve only taken Mechanics and E&M in high school? So no optics, thermodynamics, waves, quantum mechanics, relativity, etc. Also, it seems as if we’re expected to know some linear algebra (at least a bunch of stuff with eigenvalues), non-first order differential equations, etc. Would most students in the class learn that in the math class they were taking at the time or are we expected to just know it already or do we cover it in the class itself?